I???ll be the first to tell you that all of Arizona, Tucson included, is a strange place with a whole host of issues (e.g. <a href="http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/im-going-back-to-arizona-and-you-should-probably-come-too),">http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/im-going-back-to-arizona-and-you-should-probably-come-too),</a> but characterizing it as some kind of snake pit lousy with white-power meth heads is pretty off the mark.